antithesis
noun
[ anˈtɪθəsɪs ]
• a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
• "love is the antithesis of selfishness"
• (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.
Origin:
late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai ‘set against’, from anti ‘against’ + tithenai ‘to place’. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th century.
